… Water users across the (Colorado River Basin) have for years been talking about what to do next. They agree that water use should be cut deeper and for the longer haul than we have before. There are even proposals to do so. But no one knows which — if any — are still on the table. … It’s telling that while state negotiators continue to meet (and make no real progress), no one from the Bureau of Reclamation — the federal agency tasked with operating Lake Mead and Lake Powell — has attended those negotiation sessions since the Trump administration took office. In fact, Reclamation still doesn’t even have a commissioner. The administration has been dragging its feet on getting the leadership in place to finally break this logjam. And time is running short. 
–Written by Arizona Republic columnist Joanna Allhands.

Other Colorado River Basin news:

• The Colorado Sun (Denver): Denver Water vows to take Gross Reservoir Dam expansion fight to the U.S. Supreme Court
• Arizona Department of Water Resources: News release: ADWR and governor’s office brief Tohono O’odham residents of San Lucy District near Gila Bend on area groundwater conditions